Henry gityer and john helm



. U TE STATES PATEN NoEEicE.

` HENRY e:lawns` AND` JOHN nnnivtor `NEw BRUNSWICK, NEw JERSEY.

MANUEAGTNRE or Booms AND sHoEs.`

i i `Spec'rii-cationof "Letters Patent No. 12,607, dated March 27, 1855.

p 1 i i necessary, whereas the ordinary vulcanized s "Be it knownthatfwe, HENRY Gr. TYER and rubber shoe when worn or accidentally cut,"JoHN HELM, ofthe city off New .Br`i`oinswick,` it is well `known cannot be repaired and inthe county of lVfiddleseX,1intheyStateof` :becomesworthless.

" T au whom as mag/@mm i `New Jersey," havelinvented a new fand Im- Toenable `others' skilled `in the manu- `proved Method'oflManufacturingBoots and facture of `boots and .shoes'to useour inven-1 Shoes;` and we `do hereby declare that the tion wewill proceed todescribe minutely,

l*following is agfull andlexact description tour mode of operation. A ithereof, referencelbeinghadtotheaccom- 1, Havingwselected alastnlof the`required 55 `Spanying` `drawings "and to the letters of size, we attachthereto bygtaclgsm'or other con- `referencemarked thereon. venience aninsole cut from cloth, leather,

The'nature of our invention consists in orV any suitable'material; wethen cement the uniting the insole,"upper made wholly the outer surfacethereof with ordinary rubor in part of india rubberyand outsole ofberfcement (or any other cement ofwhich `boots and shoes firmly anddurably by rubber or gutta percha is a component part) means of india`rubber or other analogous unless the same has been previously coatedcements passing throughv perforations in with rubber or gutta percha, byany `well the upper`,in the manner, Vand under the conknown process. Wethen procure the upper {ditions hereinafter described and set forth. asusually cut and fitted and made wholly i Inthe manufactureof indiarubbershoes or in part of vulcanized rubber, and around Fit would be verydesirable to attach leather the lower interior edge we cement the samesoles thereto but from a peculiar property in with cement as aforesaid,about half an vulcanized rubber" fnolcement atlpresent inch in width,and when in proper sticking *known `,to the trade will permanentlyadconditiomvwe draw the same over the last 80 here theretowhenperfectly.vulcanized con- `and turn down the cemented edge over thei sequently the manufacturers engaged in this insole and roll or hammerit until it closely great and extensivebusiness, are limited to adheres.We then skive off with a knife the the use of rubber compositions only,and plaits or creases around the toe and heel and united andmadeintoboots and shoes `prior produce as near as possible an uniform sur- `tothefvulcanization, also the greatvheat to face. p p p. i

" which rubber `goods "are ,subjectedj .in the So far we have describedno novelty, and

` process of vulcanization(25Wj to 280 Fahr.) We adopt `this latterprocess merely for the 'p entirely precludes the use leather andconvenience of maintaining the upper and y y `some other material.insole in their relative and true posit-ion 1 85 We arewellaware that anattempt has until :with an ordinary shoe makers punch been made by and apatent granted to Mr. `or other similar tool (the `form thereof im-Hopper` ofy Nzew Brunswick `by which he material) `we make perforationsaround and sought to surmount this difliculty by 'aiiixthrough the upperuntil we pierce to the t ing before vulcanization, to the insoleandcemented surface of theinsole see Figure l upper of rubber shoes, whatmay `beftermed `in drawingannexed, letter, a, being the upa false or`intermediate sole made ofl muslin per of vulcanized india rubber, and,b, the or linen uncemented or uncoated withhrubinsole; where an extrastrain vmay be' reasonber on the outer Sider-after vulcanization ably`anticipated as across the ball and M i he'attached a leather solethereto by means around the toe and heel, .we may and do at 1'00 45A ofordinary cement. ",This method from option make an additional row ofperforacauses known to thetradewas not satisfactions to give additionalstrength (see drawtory and to the bestfof our knowledge is ing l)l 1 lnow `entirelydisused.` Y We do not confine `ourselves specially to Weclaim by ouriinvention to remove all making these perforations after theupper 50 the above mentioned obstaclesand to prohas been, what istechnically termed lasted, duce by means thereof a boot or shoe combutthe upper may be drawn temporary over" biningl all the valuablequalitiesof india the last `and with a pointed instrument a rubber withthe lightness and elegance at-` mark can be made around the upper as a ytainable by the use ofother materials, and" `guide by `which the holesmay be properly `55 boot andshoes `so madebythis our invenpunched ormade before the lasting.' In

i tion are capablel of `being resoled when either way after the upper'is lasted, we produrably as if sewn or stitched. If su cient strengthbe used slightly to separate these several parts of a boot or shoe sounited as above the rubber iilament o r thread can be distinctly seen asshown in the drawing annexed Fig. 2.

Having now as we believe clearly eX- plained our new and usefulinvention, and

we hereby disclaim the use or application 20.

of this our device or invention to any other matter or thing other thanis hereinafter described and set forth, what we claim and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

The uniting of the outer sole, and upper 25 manufactured wholly 0r inpart of vulcanized india rubber, with the insole of boots and shoes, bymeans of cement, the cement passing through perforations made for thatpurpose in the upper in the manner substan- 30 tially, and for thepurposes above described.

HENRY G. TYER. JOHN HELM. Witnesses:

I. Hl VooRHEEs, ELIAS I. THOMPSON.

